# War (disambiguation)

A War is a large-scale armed conflict and the term is used as a metaphor for non-military conflicts.
War or WAR may also refer to:

## Places

* War, West Virginia
* War Creek, a stream in West Virginia
* Warwickshire county in England, standard code

## Music
### Performers

* War (band), an American 1970s funk band

### Albums

* War (Bolt Thrower album), 2010
* War (Born from Pain album), 2006
* War (Demon Hunter album), 2019
* War (U2 album), 1983
* War, a cancelled album by Kanye West
* War (War album), by the American band
* War (2019 soundtrack), soundtrack for the 2019 Indian film by Vishal–Shekhar, Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara
* The War (album), a 2017 album by South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO
* W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), by American hip hop artist Pharoahe Monch

### Songs

* "The War" (Angels & Airwaves song)
* "War" (Bob Marley song), 1976
* "War" (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony song), 1998
* "War" (Drake song), 2019
* "War" (Henry Cow song), 1975
* "War" (King Von song), 2022
* "The War" (The New Power Generation song)
* "War" (Pop Smoke song), featuring Lil Tjay, 2019
* "War" (The Temptations song), 1970, also covered by Edwin Starr
* "The War Song", by Culture Club
* "War", by Amorphis from Halo
* "War", by ArrDee and Aitch, 2022
* "War", by Bathory from Bathory
* "War", by Burzum from Burzum
* "War", by The Devil Wears Prada from 8:18
* "War", by Devin Townsend from Infinity
* "WAR!", by DragonForce from Reaching into Infinity
* "War", by Good Charlotte from Youth Authority
* "War", by Idles from Ultra Mono
* "War", by James Horner from Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture
* "War", by Jay Sean from All or Nothing
* "War", by Joe Satriani from The Extremist
* "The War", a 2020 song by Joyner Lucas from the album ADHD
* "War", by Judas Priest from Nostradamus
* "The War", a 2016 song by Leeland from the album Invisible
* "War", by Linkin Park from The Hunting Party
* "War", by Meshuggah from Rare Trax
* "War", by OutKast from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
* "War", by Persuader from The Fiction Maze
* "War", by Poets of the Fall from Twilight Theater
* "War", by Sean Kingston from Tomorrow
* "War", by Shadows Fall from Retribution (uses same lyrics as Bob Marley's song "War")
* "War?", by System of a Down from System of a Down
* "War", by Goo Goo Dolls from Chaos in Bloom
* "War", by Venom Inc., 2017
* "War", by War of Ages from Dominion
* "War", by Wumpscut from Embryodead
* "War!", by Zach Callison from A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak
* "Street Fighter (War)", by Sick Puppies from Tri-Polar; used in commercials for the game Street Fighter IV

## Computing

* Write after read, a data dependency hazard
* WAR (file format) (Web application ARchive), a file format used to package Java applications
* early versions of Decwar, a pioneering multi-user computer game
* War dialing, the act of detecting online, modem-accessible systems by having a computer dial a set of numbers
* Wardriving, the act of detecting wireless networking systems detecting by driving around with a Wi-Fi-equipped device
* Warchalking, notices drawn to alert people to the presence of Wi-Fi networks

## Organizations

* White Aryan Resistance, an Indiana neo-Nazi white supremacist organization
* Wyatt Archaeological Research, an organization founded by amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt
* Voina (meaning "War" in Russian), a Moscow-based performance artist collective
* Women Against Registry, a sex offender law reform organization
* De WAR, a Dutch centre for arts and citizen science in Amersfoort

## Wrestling

* WAR (wrestling promotion), a Japanese professional wrestling promotion known as Wrestle Association R
* Wrestling Academy Rorbas, a Swiss professional wrestling promotion
* W.A.R. Wrestling, an American independent wrestling promotion

## Games

* War (card game), a two player card game typically using Anglo-American playing card deck
* a Brazilian variation of the board game Risk
* WARS Trading Card Game by Decipher
* Wars (series), a Nintendo video game series
* Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a 2008 MMO video game
* W.A.R., a 1986 video game

## Film

* War film, a genre of film

### Films

* The Wars, a 1983 Canadian historical drama film based on the 1977 novel by Timothy Findley
* The War (1994 film), a 1994 film starring Elijah Wood and Kevin Costner
* War (2002 film), a 2002 Russian film about the Second Chechen War
* War (2007 film), a 2007 Jet Li and Jason Statham film
* War, Inc., a 2008 American political satire film
* War (2014 film), a 2014 Swiss film
* War (2019 film), an Indian action thriller film directed by Siddharth Anand, part of the YRF Spy Universe

## Television
### Episodes

* "War" 21 Thunder episode 6 (2017)
* "War", Æon Flux season 2, episode 5 (1992)
* "War", Amazon episode 10 (1999)
* "War", Between season 1, episode 6 (2015)
* "War", Charles in Charge season 1, episode 4 (1984)
* "War", Da Ali G Show season 2, episode 2 (2003)
* "War", Dark Ages episode 3 (1999)
* "War" Desire episode 27 (2006)
* "War!", Diplomatic Immunity episode 5 (2009)
* "War", Fubar Age of Computer episode 6 (2017)
* "War", Garo: Gold Storm Sho episode 16 (2015)
* "War", Garo: Yami o Terasu Mono episode 18 (2013)
* "War", Hap and Leonard season 1, episode 5 (2016)
* "War", Heartburn Hotel series 1, episode 4 (1998)
* "War", Hey Dude season 5, episode 13 (1991)
* "War", La Femme Nikita season 1, episode 17 (1997)
* "War", Lights Out (2011) episode 13 (2011)
* "War", Mary & George episode 7 (2024)
* "War", Max Headroom season 1, episode 5 (1987)
* "War", Not Going Out series 11, episode 5 (2021)
* "War", Once Upon a Time in Iraq episode 1 (2020)
* "War", Prisoners of Gravity season 3, episode 6 (1991)
* "War", Private Practice season 3, episode 21 (2010)
* "War", Special Squad episode 16 (1984)
* "War", Squid Game: The Challenge episode 3 (2023)
* "War", Suits season 2, episode 16 (2013)
* "War", Super Pumped episode 3 (2022)
* "War", The Comic Strip Presents... series 1, episode 2 (1983)
* "War", The Crown season 4, episode 10 (2020)
* "War", The Last Czars episode 4 (2019)
* "War", Unreal season 1, episode 1 (2016)
* "War", You Can't Do That on Television season 5, episode 24 (1985)
* "War", Young Justice season 2, episode 15 (2013)
* "The War", A Dance to the Music of Time episode 3 (1997)
* "The War", Alien Encounters season 3, episode 5 (2014)
* "The War", Boy Meets World season 7, episode 15 (2000)
* "The War", Crime Story season 1, episode 6 (1986)
* "The War", Fright Krewe season 1, episode 10 (2023)
* "The War", Ideal season 4, episode 5 (2008)
* "The War", Koose Munisamy Veerappan episode 3 (2023)
* "The War", Tales of Zestiria the X season 1, episode 11 (2016)

### Shows

* War (miniseries), a 1983 Canadian television miniseries
* The War (miniseries), a 2007 television documentary about World War II by Ken Burns
* The Chaser's War on Everything or simply The War, an Australian television comedy series

## Literature
### Fiction

* War (Guerre), a 1934 novel by Louis Ferdinand Céline
* War (La Guerre), a 1970 novel by J. M. G. Le Clézio
* War, a 1994 play by Dennis Foon
* War (novel), a 1996 novel by Simon Hawke; the third installment in the Birthright series
* War, a 1999 novel by Peter Lerangis; the fourth installment in the Watchers series
* Aliens vs. Predator: War, a 1999 novel based on Alien vs. Predator by S. D. Perry; the third installment in The Machiko Noguchi Saga
* War, a 2003 collection of poems by Harold Pinter
* War: Stories of Conflict, a 2005 short story anthology edited by Michael Morpurgo
* Sparrowhawk Six: War, a 2006 novel by Edward Cline; the sixth installment in the Sparrowhawk series
* War: Tales of Conflict and Strife, a 2017 short story collection by Roald Dahl
* War: A Novel of the House War, a 2019 novel by Michelle West; the eighth installment in The House War series
* The War, a 1983 novel by Michael McDowell; the fourth installment in the Blackwater series
* The Wars, a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley

### Non-fiction

* War — What For?, a 1910 book by George Ross Kirkpatrick
* War, the Creator, a 1915 magazine essay and 1916 book by Gelett Burgess
* War: Its Conduct and Legal Results, a 1915 book by T. Baty and J. H. Morgan
* War, This War and the Sermon on the Mount, a 1915 book by Burnett Hillman Streeter concerning World War I
* War: Its Nature, Cause and Cure, a 1923 book by G. Lowes Dickinson
* War: Its Causes, Consequences and Cure, a 1923 book by Kirby Page
* War (Junger book), a 2010 book by Sebastian Junger about Afghanistan
* War (Woodward book), a 2024 book by Bob Woodward
* The War: Speech of Hon. E.C. Benedict, in the Assembly of the State of New York, April 6, 1864, an 1864 work by Erastus C. Benedict
* The War: What Should Be Said About It in the Schools?, a 1914 book by Fannie Fern Andrews
* The War: A Memoir (La Douleur), a 1985 memoir by Marguerite Duras
* War, Literature & the Arts, an American military literary magazine in publication since 1989

### Comics

* War comics, a genre of comics
* War (Marvel Comics), several Marvel Comics characters
* War, a 1975–1984 ongoing series published by Charlton Comics
* The War (comics), a 1989 Marvel Comics limited series

## Visual arts

* War (Böcklin painting), two 1896 oil paintings by Arnold Böcklin
* The War (Dix engravings), a 1924 series of etchings by Otto Dix
* The War (Dix triptych), a 1932 oil painting by Otto Dix
* War (Rego painting), a 2003 pastel on paper by Paula Rego

## Other uses

* The War (boxing), a 1985 bout between Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns
* War language, spoken in the Indian subcontinent
* Waray language in the Philippines
* Winchester Automatic Rifle
* Wins Above Replacement, a sabermetric baseball statistic
* War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
* War, a legendary character from the myth of founding of the city of Warsaw; see Wars and Sawa